Friedrich Goebel

Friedrich Goebel (22 September 1887-4 January 1960) was a Generalmajor of the Wehrmacht armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Friedrich Goebel was born on 22 September 1887 in Bamberg, Bavaria, German Empire. He served in World War I as a staff officer and rose to the rank of Lieutenant in 1916, and Goebel joined the Reichswehr after the war's end. Goebel was involved in putting down communist uprisings in the aftermath of the November Revolution of 1918, and Goebel was promoted to Major in 1925 and to Colonel in 1930. In 1931, Goebel joined the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler and rose in the ranks of the newly-formed Wehrmacht military of Nazi Germany. When World War II broke out, Goebel was in command of reserve troops on the border with France, and he would take part in the 1940 invasion of France. Goebel was posted in Cherbourg at the head of two reserve infantry regiments from 1940 to 1944, holding the rank of Major-General. Goebel fought against the American invasion, having had to suffer from US Air Force bombings in June of 1944. Goebel surrendered to the Allied Powers in the Netherlands on 6 May 1945, and he died in Nuremberg in 1960.